Review

Nothing really sums up the mission statement of this sequel to 2014’s Godzilla reboot better than its theme song. Composer Bear McCreary and System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian have covered Blue Öyster Cult’s ‘Godzilla’, incorporating guitar riffs, traditional Japanese chanting, and lyrics that should be annotating the pages …

In the build-up to Rage 2, Bethesda has portrayed the game in a way that makes you think it’s a completely unchained, anarchistic, chaotic experience where every fight will have you utilising a vast array of powers to obliterate enemies like some sort of demigod. While that is entirely possible, …

Time is everyone’s biggest enemy, it can lead a franchise into ruin after mediocre iterations gradually tear its reputation down or it can help establish a great legacy in being one of the greatest fighting series ever made. For Mortal Kombat 11, time is even more important. It firmly establishes …

On paper, it would be easy to dismiss Eighth Grade as just another high-school movie, infused as it is with the standard quotidian of Gen Z academic life from mean girls and crushes to clueless parents and teachers. And directed by a 27-year-old man, no less. What could the trials …

Cooler Master might not be the first name that springs to mind when you’re thinking about shopping for the best gaming keyboard (opens in new tab), but that might all be about to change with the release of the MK850. It’s an excellent mechanical keyboard on its own merits, with …

From the director (Sean Anders) and star (Mark Wahlberg) of the Daddy’s Home movies comes another film about the travails of parenting, only this time inching into more serious territory. Instant Family is, for Anders, a personal picture: its tale of Pete (Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne) adopting three children …

Watch the trailer for Cold Pursuit and you could be forgiven for thinking, “Do we need another geri-actioner starring Liam Neeson on a roaring rampage of revenge?” Sure, it was fun and exhilarating in Taken (opens in new tab), seeing Oskar Schindler crack skulls – after a career of gravel-throated …

Corsair has long been a leading manufacturer of PC components and, given the range of parts and accessories they produce, it was almost inevitable that they’d eventually move into the prebuilt PC space. They found early success with their compact Corsair One, and that trend continues with the even more …

The novels of James Baldwin were shamefully under-explored during his lifetime. So Barry Jenkins’ faithful interpretation of Baldwin’s 1974 love story goes some way towards addressing this slight, even if it will be the success of Jenkins’ Best Picture-winner Moonlight (opens in new tab) (rather than, say, Baldwin’s Go Tell …

Spyro the Dragon was the first game I ever bought with my own money. After months of doing chores around the farm to earn a bit of scrap, I remember gleefully directing a Toys R Us employee to the game, holding it firmly in my hands all the way to …